2023 Many Palm Sunday scriptures foreshadow the resurrection of Jesus and remind readers of His sacrifice for the world's salvation. Randy Rosenthal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023 Educated at Radcliffe, the daughter of a wealthy Baltimore lawyer continuing Arlosoroff’s mission to get Jews out of Germany, Susannah seems designed to remind readers of America’s own antisemitism. L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 25 Feb. 2023 Hobbies can remind us that life doesn’t always have to be so serious. All thoughts and opinions are my own.Recent Examples on the Web Only minor cracks in the metal frame still remind us of that terrible October morning. Maybe next time.ĭisclaimer: I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. I had definitely hoped for more excitement and sparks in general, but didn’t really receive that. Overall, the book was good, but I wouldn’t read it again. It was just lightly diffused leaving the relationship feeling a little bland. They’re at odds with each other throughout the book so I expected that tension to build and finally explode at the end, but it really didn’t. It was nice to read about and there were even a few surprise adventures along the way, but I didn’t feel the thrill I had hoped for.Īlong with this, I didn’t feel the spark I had hoped for between Gus and Maya. I didn’t feel the excitement I usually feel when there are fun things happening in a book. There didn’t really seem to be a rise in action, although there were plenty of things happening. It was nice to know everything wasn’t just laid out from page one. The author hinted at a few demons both Gus and Maya had but didn’t come right out and say them. There were quite a few things we, as the readers, had to figure out about both the main characters’ pasts. I liked that aspect of the book.Īlso, there was a decent amount of mystery at the beginning. They both have things they want to get out of the summer and feel that the other is standing in their way of those things. The story is told in 3rd person POV and it focuses on Gus and Maya, alternating each chapter. There was a good set-up for an enemies-to-lovers trope which I was excited about. I enjoyed parts of it and didn’t enjoy other parts. I wasn’t completely entranced by it, but I didn’t hate it either. My feelings for this book are pretty neutral. Because sometimes it takes someone half a world away to remind you why you’re really here. Before long, Gus and Maya discover hidden depths to clichéd bucket-lists and secret summer plans. So he devises a list of his own-one guaranteed to send Maya packing, allowing him to enjoy the last of his freedom before he trudges off to agricultural college.īut Maya doesn’t scare that easily and soon sparks fly. Gus has important plans this summer- plans that do NOT involve helping an animal-phobe from the States tick off items on her seriously clichéd must-do list. Like that’s not bad enough, her home-stay host brother Gus clearly wishes she’d landed in somebody else’s sheep paddock. When Maya leaves Chicago armed with an important Aussie must-do list, she assumes she’s heading to Barangaroo with its beautiful Sydney Harbour views-NOT Barangaroo Creek, a fly-ridden, wi-fi dead zone hours from a decent body of water.
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